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Attention: Parents, kids, mature singers and karaoke lovers. Justin Bieber I love to teach voice. For me there’s nothing more rewarding than teaching someone how to find their voice, how to find that power and joy. Changing someone’s life by giving you back your voice is my passion. Yes, I said returning your voice to you. Training you to use your voice as it was created to be used naturally....

Stage fright can come from wondering what’s going to come out of your mouth when you begin to sing. If you do not have a solid technique to work from – a step by step process that gets you the result you want, then it can be very scary to sing. Do you tighten up when you know the high note is coming? Do you drop down into the throat for a low note. Do you become thoughtless with the p...

Sing Like You Speak™ means clear, direct communication with your audience. Most singers – and I will include myself in this mix – think that you must work hard to sing; that you need to layer all sorts of emotion (not real emotion, but fake) on top of your lyrics to be a singing star. The truth is that when you simply speak the lyrics, with an honest connection to yourself, to your ...

On the last SingersKeyNotes.com webinar we were discussing how to reach your audience. How do you make the communication clear without being loud and obnoxious? Consonants. That’s the answer. Using your consonants to make your words very clear. Some singers say, ‘no way!’ to clear diction because they think it will make them sound affected or classical or uncool. Let me tell yo...

What fun! Last evening was the first Sing Like You Speak™ webinar. We had 10 singers join us for 45 minutes of questions and answers about all things vocal. People asked great questions and I actually had answers for them! If you were not able to join us, , to listen to a recording of this rockin’ session with singers from all over the world. Our next free webinar is Wednesday, July 27 a...

I am thrilled to announce the beginning of a weekly webinar series, Singers Key Notes. During this webinar participants and I will discuss all things vocal. Ask me any questions you have and I will answer to the best of my ability. [Note: my answer to 'What is the meaning of life?' is music.] You and I and all the others who come to the webinars will form a community. A community of musicians, sin...

Singing doesn’t have to be hard. Most of us make it hard because of how we think about singing. The problem is more in the mind than in the voice. Here’s what I mean. What if as a piano player, I thought that I needed to use my elbows and my nose to play the piano like a pro. That is absolutely ridiculous, isn’t it? Well, what I see in my voice studio is actually the same thing. ...

The trouble with reaching high notes is that we are afraid of singing high. We tighten every muscle imaginable to make it to the pitch. Well, when we put all that effort into hitting the high note, we are ensuring that we DON’T reach the note. What you need is freedom – vocal freedom so your body can respond to the pitch naturally. Here’s a video of Sally Morgan and her Student t...

The absolute joy of singing! I write tonight after spending several hours singing. Cured all my ills. Seriously. Are you depressed? SING! Are you lonely? SING! Are you lethargic? SING! Are you angry? SING! Singing with the freedom and absolute abandon of a child is the best therapy there is. The sympathetic vibrations you create with your voice tickle your innards. Think of the extra...

Is there a great voice stuck inside of you? You know it’s there, but just don’t know how to let it out? That is how I felt for years! Even though I was a professional singer, I knew there was so much more inside of me that I couldn’t figure out how to release out to the world. It took years of training and research and performance for me to conclude that there had to be a better...